What do you keep in your Ammo Cans?

How dare they include such candies in MRE. Wait until the sasquatch and bigbird find out about this and correct this error like with the school lunches.

i had to stop eating m&m's because the defective rate was too high . way too many 3's , E's , and W's , it was maddening ![panic]

I keep some knives in mine, magazines, survival stuff, ammo of course.

I plan on repainting them this summer. I'm going to color code them for different types of ammo, etc.. I keep forgetting which ones are .22 and which ones are .223 and so on. Hopefully I dont forget which color is which ammo. I'll have to stencil the caliber as well. :)

These are all completely empty, but maintain a 2.5 mile distance in case of fire just to be safe.

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Originally Posted by mcantar18c

Quick sugar, taste good, and the best of the candies they put in the MREs.
Other MRE candy... peanut M&Ms, Twizzlers bites, Reese's pieces... I think that's it. I save em, put em in an empty pouch on my kit and eat em later.

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Originally Posted by TheGrey

M&Ms as a snack are hard to beat- you get a boost of sugar, it's an agreeable flavor that doesn't fight with coffee, and is a small shot of nostalgia. Every base I've been to has M&Ms offered as a snack.

I don't know what the military folk do in the hotter climates, though- I've never dealt with that problem.

The reason for the ammo can and M&Ms has more to do with keeping mice away than portability...

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Makes sense. Yeah, kinda nostalgic for me too as my dad always carried them as snacks when we hit the slopes.

Ammo in one, in the other? Gun parts, ear plugs, shooting glasses, gun tools, other things.

I have a couple 50 cal cans (1) is the cook box for camping and include utensils, pots, pans, grittle, etc. and the other is chains, tree saver and tow straps.

Groover..

Tow chains, tire chains, flammable liquids, MRE's, fuel bars, tool kit, first-aid kit, ratchet straps, bungee cords, add some trays and store nuts and bolts, nails, hammers, trailer hitches, camping equipment, jumper cables, bottled water, spray paint, pistols, magazines. Ohhh and ammo

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Originally Posted by mrghost

Is the M&Ms thing a military thing? I keep seeing references to M&Ms as an emergency-type snack especially from former and current military members, and it seemed to be a thing with my dad (he was Army, but not around anymore to ask).

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Another thing about M&M's is that the chocolate (non-peanut) one's keep enough freshness to stay consumable for years. With the whole "melts in your mouth, not in your hands" characteristic of them, they don't melt all over everything like other chocolate products do and don't get rock hard like other candies. In other words, they are great quick-energy candies that hold up well over long periods of storage.

Oh, and I use my ammo can's for ammo. Even though I make sure all of my cans have good seals, I use plastic bags inside the cans to help decrease effects of moisture. I stencil my identifying image onto all of them (Mandolorian Mythosaur skull - Star Wars bounty hunter clan image) and use label maker labels to identify the caliber inside. By using the labels, I don't have to repaint the caliber if I ever re-purpose the can.

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